Kiminori Washitani

Title: Kiminori Washitani: Patent Inventor in Network Communications.

Introduction

Kiminori Washitani is an inventor associated with Fukuoka, Japan, and Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. His recorded patent concerns network communication and the management of dynamically opened ports.

Latest Patents

Washitani is credited with 1 patent: “Repeater and an inter-network repeating method.” The invention describes a repeater that maps external ports to internal ports and forwards communications packets to terminals on a local area network. It also uses a timer to track port inactivity and checks whether a registered machine remains on the network. When the machine is absent, the repeater removes the corresponding external-port registration from its mapping table, enabling automatic closure of a dynamically opened port according to prior settings.

Career Highlights

Washitani’s listed patent reflects work on inter-network communication, port mapping, and automated network resource management. The supplied information associates his work with Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Collaborations

Akio Yao and Yasushi Yokomitsu are identified as Washitani’s coworkers.

Conclusion

Kiminori Washitani’s recorded invention addresses practical network security and administration by managing port mappings and closing registrations when connected machines are no longer present.